Why the Legal Stuff?

Because it's expected. The primary purpose of a
website disclaimer is to limit or attempt to limit the liabilities that
a website owner or publisher may suffer arising out of the website.
Examples of the kinds of liability that we publishers must contend with
include libel/defamation, copyright infringement and breach of privacy.
Most legal systems strictly control the effects of limitations and
exclusions of liability. For this reason you should take local legal
advice if you believe you may have to rely upon the limits of liability
in our website disclaimer.

Disclaimers:

All the information on this website is published in good faith and for
general information purpose only. We do not make any warranties about
the completeness, reliability and accuracy of this information. Any
action you take upon the information on our website is strictly at your
own risk. We will not be liable for any losses and damages in connection
with the use of our website.

From our website, you can visit other websites by following hyperlinks
to these sites. While we strive to provide only links to useful and
ethical websites, we have no control over the content and nature of
these sites and the links to other websites do not imply a
recommendation for all the content found on these sites.

Please be also aware that when you leave our website, other sites may
have different privacy policies and terms which are beyond our control.

Privacy Policy

We believe in OPSEC.

You may give us personal information about you, such
as your name, your contact email and other contact details on various
places on our website. This privacy policy describes how we collect and
use your personal information.

The information you give us is absolute safe with us. We will never
rent, sell, share or otherwise disclose your personal information to
third parties. We might contact you from time to time regarding your
purchases or the services (like forums and announcement lists) you have
subscribed to.

We may also send you promotional announcements from time to time about
new products and services that you might find useful.

You may also opt out from receiving information from us at any time and
ask us to remove your contact information from our database.

Curation Policy

The internet was built and
founded on linking, sharing and recommending
great stories from other sources on the web.
Curation to us means finding interesting,
well-written, and highly appropriate articles
for our readers. By choosing an article from
your site, we are giving it our vote of
approval. This not only means that we excerpt
your article, we also give it our highest
recommendation, and we direct our readers….. in
every case …. to view your article on your
website. Our curation is designed to send our
readers to your site and your articles.

We
curated and excerpted your article because it
was outstanding in some way

If, for any reason, you wish
us not to excerpt your stories, simply contact
us and request your story be taken down. We will
immediately and without exception comply with
your taken down request, and put you on our list
of sites never to excerpt from. 99% of emails we
get about curation and excerpting are from
publishers and authors who are delighted to
receive additional exposure and readership for
their stories as a result of our curation.

Excerpting Policy

Most online publishers
recognize the value of having their stories and
articles

* quoted

* commented on

* debated

* discussed

*linked to

*new readers encouraged to
the article

Social sharing of online
content only extends the reach, impact and
ultimately the effectiveness and profitability
of the original website. We are excerpting your
content to inform our visitors, and to point
them to the original source of the excerpt. To
be frank… we want our readers to discover and
visit your content, and your website.

We Want You To Be
Pleased We Excerpted An Article From You

Standards, practices, and
legal decisions about ( Fair use) are still
evolving online. Our standards are higher than
the merely legal. We hold ourselves to much
higher standards than Fair Use. If you are not
delighted to be excerpted and linked to by our
site, just let us know. We will take action
immediately.

We excerpt your
stories the way we hope others will curate our
content.

Specifically if you like a
story on our site, we are pleased and gratified.
Please feel free to excerpt it as generously as
you wish. In return please just give us clear
credit, link back to the article, and some
encouragement for interested readers to visit
the original article. Take as much of our
content as you think will inform and entertain
your readers. Just link, credit, and encourage
the readers to visit the original site. That is
what we do. That is what builds the Internet.
That is what social sharing is about. Everyone
benefits when sharing is done respectfully and
honestly.

Here is what we will
never do

We will never take your
entire article. We will never republish without
full credit, links and sending you readers. We
will never republish an rss feed verbatim. We
will never excerpt without the intention of
sending you more traffic. We always change the
headline, and add context, meaning, and analysis
to your articles.

Our general
guidelines for excerpts published on this site
are

*never more than 30 to 40 %
of any article

*never more than one article
from any site in any one day

*never more than what is
needed to communicate the essence of the
article

Most Importantly….

Sharing, curation and
excerpting standards are evolving online. Our
standards of delight may very well differ from
yours. If you want us to be even more generous
with links and credit let us know. If you feel
your story has too much excerpted let us know.